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THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 5
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Jeremiah recites in prayer the sorrowful estate of Zion.
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Remember,</span> O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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Our inheritance is turned to <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/5/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 79: 1; Jer. 39: 8.">strangers</a>, our houses to aliens.
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers <i>are</i> as widows.
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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Our necks <i>are</i> under <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/5/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Persecution.">persecution</a>: we labour, <i>and</i> have no rest.
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We have given the hand <i>to </i>the Egyptians, <i>and to</i> the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Our <sup>a</sup><a href="lam/5/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Fatherhood.">fathers</a> have <sup>b</sup><a href="lam/5/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 31: 29; Ezek. 18: 2; Mosiah 13: 13.">sinned</a>, <i>and are</i> not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Servants have ruled over us: <i>there is</i> none that doth deliver <i>us</i> out of their hand.
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We gat our bread with <i>the peril of</i> our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion, <i>and</i> the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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The crown is fallen <i>from</i> our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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For this our heart is faint; for these <i>things</i> our eyes are dim.
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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Thou, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, <i>and</i> forsake us so long time?
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<sup>a</sup><a href="lam/5/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 51: 10; Ps. 80: 3; Jer. 31: 18; Mosiah 7: 33; Morm. 9: 6; D&C 98: 47.">Turn</a> thou us unto thee, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
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